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Hello Gin

A simple implementation of the Gin web framework for go.

Installation

go get -u github.com/gin-gonic/gin

Hello world

package main import "github.com/gin-gonic/gin" func main() { r := gin.Default() r.GET("/ping", func(c *gin.Context) { c.JSON(200, gin.H{ "message": "pong", }) }) r.Run(":3000") // listen and serve on 0.0.0.0:8080 }

If we now run go run main.go we can start the server on port 3000. Either using curl http://localhost:3000 or a GUI like Postman, we can see the results:

GET ping

GET ping

GET postman

GET postman

Handling JSON data

We need to bind the JSON data to a struct. Let's update the code to have the following:

package main // Update here import "github.com/gin-gonic/gin" import "net/http" import "fmt" // Update here type PostData struct { Hello string `json:"hello"` } func main() { r := gin.Default() r.GET("/ping", func(c *gin.Context) { c.JSON(200, gin.H{ "message": "pong", }) }) // Update here r.POST("/post", func(c *gin.Context) { var json PostData c.BindJSON(&json) id := c.Query("id") // shortcut for c.Request.URL.Query().Get("id") page := c.DefaultQuery("page", "0") hello := json.Hello res := fmt.Sprintf("id: %s; page: %s; hello: %s", id, page, hello) fmt.Printf(res) c.String(http.StatusOK, res) }) r.Run(":3000") }

First, we update the imports to include the fmt and net/http libraries:

import "github.com/gin-gonic/gin" import "net/http" import "fmt"

Secondly, we create a struct that can have the JSON data bound to it:

type PostData struct { Hello string `json:"hello"` }

Finally, we add a POST route that, for the sake of the example, takes two queries ("page" has a default value) and binds the JSON data to the struct.

r.POST("/post", func(c *gin.Context) { var json PostData c.BindJSON(&json) id := c.Query("id") // shortcut for c.Request.URL.Query().Get("id") page := c.DefaultQuery("page", "0") hello := json.Hello res := fmt.Sprintf("id: %s; page: %s; hello: %s", id, page, hello) fmt.Printf(res) c.String(http.StatusOK, res) })

Finally, we log the result out and send back the res string to Postman.

Results:

POST post

POST post

POST postman

POST postman

For more information and documentation, check out Gin's github.

For my repo, check here

Hello is a series that is about short, sharp examples. Read more on this series to find small gems to add your toolset.

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Dennis O'Keeffe

@dennisokeeffe92
  • Melbourne, Australia

Hi, I am a professional Software Engineer. Formerly of Culture Amp, UsabilityHub, Present Company and NightGuru.
I am currently working on Visibuild.

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